Scottish Quotes

Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

We are all failures at least, all the best of us are.

It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more.

When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.

God himself took this human flesh upon him.

A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.

If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.

The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.

For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be for ever with Him.

When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive.

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative.

Since we have placed justification in the revelation of Jesus Christ formed and brought forth in the heart, there working his works of righteousness and bringing forth the fruits of the Spirit.

He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?

And should think freedom more to prize, than all the gold in world that is.

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.

I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!

I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!

I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.